GRANDMA EMBEDDED IN AMERICA

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Job Openings---Good News for American unemployed.

ICE and other one minute men and brown shirts have chased border crossers out of many jobs around town here and now there are TONS of openings. Come on down!!!! Line cooks, midnights dishwashers, poop movers and crap takers are desperately needed. Our new immigration policy is working. I can't get a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Abuelita is disappointed in her spineless Congress.

What is it about the air in D.C. which makes everyone forget why they were elected and what their mandate was and what the polls say and what their electorate wants??!?!? Why doesn't anyone ever listen to me? Silly country. Big talkers, winky walkers. I'm going to go have tea and work some voodoo on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

South Korean Shame over Virginia shootings

All South Koreans are suffering terribly this week, ashamed to go out, to do their daily tasks as usual, to communicate with friends, even sympathetic friends. They are feeling enormous shame over the identity of the Virginia college student who shot everyone in sight one day this week. I am a host... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A letter from an 80 year old vet and father of a friend

My daddy would have written this if he still lived. Wouldn't it be disturbing if we all woke up one morning to find ourselves saddled with a Special Interest-subsidized, mentally impaired and criminally incompetent administration, replete with pathological liars. An administration with an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 4, 2007

Usury no longer exists. Wanna give me a personal loan??

Let’s just take the word “usury” out of our dictionaries, as it no longer exists. The Bible and Quran defined the word, set its limits, punishments and penalties and told all readers not to engage in this most hellish behavior of man against man. However, times change and after many centuries of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

keith harmon snow ~lecturer, reporter, extremely decent human being

I received an email late in the day, an invitation to attend a free lecture at the University of Arizona. I have a host daughter from Pakistan, who was raised most of her life in Saudi Arabia. She is very ‘world aware’ and so, I had to go. Keith Harmon Snow was to lecture, intertwining a U of A... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

Free U.S. Telephone Calls to 3 Cities in Mexico

There is a new company in Iowa, Hoi Polloi is its name, in Iowa, can you believe it, which directs your calls to Monterrey, to Guadalajara and to Mexico City, D.F. for free?!?!? I feel like Matthew Lesko here. You call their number, and if you use your "free in the US phone", then the whole call is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 3, 2006

Beautiful Brasilian cherry wood floors

I love this country, but I do have to admit that we are the most confused society on the planet. The term 'mixed messages' pretty much covers what I feel like ranting about this morning. I lived in Brasil for awhile and came to love that wonderful mixed up nation, too. Maybe, I just love mixed up... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 18, 2006

Well, getting into The Court Building was fun, not.

I know that this is a personal foible, but I feel guilty when authority figures loom over my personal space. I felt like bin Laden's wife and personal gofer while stripping down and still setting off alarms in the walk through thingie at the Court House today, when entering to apply for a passport.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 4, 2006

Embedded in a Leaderless Nation

There are no leaders for me to follow. Everyone is afraid to pick up the flag and rally the troops. Having no politics is okay with everyone. Having politics, like Mexican immigrants have, is not okay. If they only truly knew the power that they possess.....scary, no? But no, nothing scares us... Sign in to see full entry.

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I wondered if anyone was reporting from the frontlines of American Society, embedded with the poverty stricken and reporting on what happens each day when you live in the greatest country on earth and earn enough to survive and not much else. I wondered if anyone was explaining America to others and thought that, since I was already embedded in this ongoing cultural experiment, I might tell what it's like.

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